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House of Lords have backed scientific advisers to the government, insisting they must be allowed to make their views public. Their support comes in the wake of Home Secretary Alan Johnson's decision to sack the government's chief adviser on drugs, Professor...
Tags: scientific adviser, Germany, Roding, Paul Drayson Baron Drayson, Patrick Jenkin Baron Jenkin of Roding, Elystan Morgan Baron Elystan-Morgan, Chief Advisor, Fellows of the Royal Society, Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, John Beddington, Politics
The Government’s chief scientific adviser said today that he agreed with the sacked drugs “tsar” Professor David Nutt when he said that cannabis is less dangerous than alcohol and cigarettes. Professor John Beddington, the most senior scientific adviser...
Tags: David Nutt, Alan Johnson, professor david, John Beddington, Prof Nutt, scientific adviser, drug adviser, professor john, THE UK, Gordon Brown
British media compared the posting to the mythical Q, the code name given to James Bond's good-humoured gadget-master. The action is part-time though: two or three days a week, the ad says. The rest of the time you could keep your job as a supermarket...
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